Sometimes I wonder if Francis Fukuyama (the end of history guy) and Steven Pinker (the better angels of our nature guy) ever get together, and discuss how badly they got it wrong.

Fuck Charlie Kirk.

Charlie Kirk was a horrible human being bringing out the worst in people both in life AND now in death.

Charlie Kirk is dead. Let's all just put it behind us. All the sorrow and recrimination is not going to bring him back. Time to move on. 🗽🗽🗽

A $200,000,000 surveillance system that might eventually include reciprocal data from Texas law enforcement in a Mexican state that is notorious for cartel --> law enforcement infiltration. What could go wrong besides everything. The Eyes of Chihuahua www.texasobserver.org/texas-chihua...

Trump’s irresistible salespitch to foreign businesses: “If you build your factory here, we’ll arrest everyone inside!”

If you had told me in 2012 that Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign manager would be posting like this 13 years later i would not have believed you

I've been repressing it for months now, but finally I'm feeling the utter despair from the realization that the people of this country really did put Trump and all his chaos, cruelty, and grift back in the White House.

A tale of two vibes.

Too horrible to contemplate yet I've seen more flight activity than usual around Fort Bliss in the last month. What a tragedy in the making. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

If the Republicans/Neo-Confederates screw us at the midterms, that's the end of politics in the United States since at least FDR was president and maybe since James Buchanan.

My point is simply that saying LGBTQ people are less lonely than the straights can make the lonely among us feel exceptionally worse about themselves.

The trade talks between the US and the world are performative on both sides. The US delegation engages to assuage Trump's ego. The world engages to appear cooperative, also to assuage Trump's ego.

When you have a rich country with a thriving economy imposing tariffs on its trading partners, even crazy high tariffs, it can take far longer than you think to slow trade. Trading partners of the United States should keep that in mind.

“There is no moral difference between telling people they can have a shower so you can gas them in gas chambers and telling people they can have food so you can shoot them at aid sites. A holocaust is happening right before our eyes and the world is silent.” - Mohamad Safa, PVA rep. to the UN.

He's right. And I like his choice of words for emphasis. Hunter Biden 2028?

God fucking bless Hunter Biden!

In response to the Trump administration's interference in Brazil's prosecution of Bolsonaro.

The only thing more devastating than the corruption of the Trump era is how few ordinary people seem to be paying attention or care. At least, it sure feels that way.

Next to public defenders and ER doctors and nurses, I can't imagine a job more loved by those who do it than diplomat. Sad for those who have fallen victim to the Trump administration. The USA is much weaker and much more vulnerable for their loss.

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

When are state AGs going to start ramping up prosecution of private actors bribing the Trump government? I want to see local enforcement when a company or individual engages in quid pro quo corruption. It doesn't matter that the party on the other side is the president.

Timothy Snyder with some compressed truth about truth. www.facebook.com/thedailyshow... via @mariopro.bsky.social When Step 1 becomes a commonplace, journalism and its practices are in peril. We crossed into that world well before the 2024 election, but it was hard to get journalists to see it.

“No right is safe in the new legal regime the Court creates.” –Justice Sonia Sotomayor. One of the most chilling sentences I have ever read.

Careful guys, if you don’t control migration you might turn out like <checks notes> the greatest, wealthiest city in the world.

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I'm conflicted on the Israel - Iran war. It could help Ukraine. Which I'm all for. Iran is also notoriously murderous towards LGBTQ people. Which is my community. But Israel is not doing this for those reasons. Which means where this goes may ultimately cause more harm than benefit.

Not taking anything away from Senator Padilla because he was treated atrociously But I JUST want to remind everyone that the Congresswoman LaMonica McIver, a Black woman, was just indicted for just asking questions at an ICE detention center in her state Keep that same energy of support for her

HCR comments on the manhandling and handcuffing of Sen. Alex Padilla by Kristi Noem goons. "This is a really big deal." youtu.be/dJrTQvMYRTM?...

The more I live through our current American age and listen to the voices opposed to American fascism, the more it becomes clear that we're in for a long, painful fight. Lots of death. Lots of economic displacement. A complete loss of our former place in the world.

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I've long believed this, having grown up in Texas, the son of a family with deep southern roots that openly expressed racism disguised as obvious truth.

Jonathan Joss was Comanche and Apache and an openly gay actor. He was murdered while looking at the remains of his dogs at his own house that was burnt down. The killer yelled homophobic slurs before shooting him. This is the real world consequences of the hatred that the right commodifies

“We know quite a number of entomologists who have experience dating back [decades]. One of our very good friends – he now does not have the emotional courage to hang up a sheet to collect moths at night. It is too devastating to see how few there are.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Circumcisions would be a legitimate report of mutilation unlike gender affirming care. The irony is plain.

The TACO trade meme is the coolest thing ever. Imagine the ego injury it inflicts on the Malignant Narcissist in Chief! Fucking love it!

Woke up this morning feeling like the taboo of ignoring court orders has been broken and now it's just a matter of time before courts at all levels become relatively toothless to enforce judgments and orders against many other relatively well-heeled and powerful plaintiffs. Not just the president.

There is a false dichotomy drawn between "the ivory tower" and "the real world," and I'm here to report that in a post-industrial society, your real-world economy absolutely hinges on the university. University towns are factory towns. Universities drive economic activity, not the other way around.

Another Reddit post from an eyewitness. www.reddit.com/r/palmspring...

Fertility center bombed in Palm Springs. www.reddit.com/r/palmspring...

I've changed in the last several years ... I've always been way left of center and begrudgingly American. Trump changed all of that. I'm now merely left of center and take much more pride in my origins as an American. People like me are angry. We're changed. And we're ready to fight.

RFK Jr possession vt.tiktok.com/ZShxcvH9c/

Given the cruel American insistence on imposing circumcision on infants, is Leo XIV the first circumcised pope?

DONALD TRUMP SINGLE-HANDEDLY DROVE THE ECONOMY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA INTO A RECESSION IN JUST THREE MONTHS.

Is anyone working on the lefty Project 2029? And if not, why not?

Another judge arrested for allegedly "hiding" Venezuelans who were here legally awaiting an asylum adjudication. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

I should have posted "Stupid Americans ..." because genital cutting on the unconsenting is sexual assault.

el papa Francisco, que descanse en paz abajo, la bandera nacional a media asta en el Zócalo, CDMX